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Views Book of the week A sweet reckoning This exposé of the true cost of industrially farming honeybees in the US is a tragic tale – but there is still room for hope, discovers Thomas Lewton INDUSTRIAL farming, at its worst, conjures images of cows or pigs shoulder to shoulder in windowless warehouses pumped full of antibiotics, with little regard for their welfare. Now, replace those images – with bees. In Bitter Honey: Big Ag’s threat to bees and the fight to save them, social scientist and environment writer Jennie Durant reveals how, in recent decades, US honeybee colonies have been industrialised: stored in refrigerated warehouses and fed on sugar syrup drips and protein bars. …